Just like the rest of the Mahabharata, the Gita is written entirely in two-line verses, or couplets, called shlokas. In all, the Mahabharata has more than 100, 000 shlokas. How many of these make up the Gita?

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Just like the rest of the Mahabharata, the Gita is written entirely in two-line verses, or couplets, called ‘shlokas’. In all, the Mahabharata has more than 100, 000 shlokas. How many of these make up the Gita?

A	22, 300
B	700
C	43, 455
D	1, 278

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -The Mahabharata is one of the longest epic poems ever written. It has over 200, 000 verse lines, 1.8 million words and it is believed that it could have taken over 600 years to write! The oldest surviving piece of text is believed to be dated from 400BCE. Can you imagine writing all of that?

Detailed explanation-2: -The Mahābhārata is the longest epic poem known and has been described as “the longest poem ever written". Its longest version consists of over 100, 000 śloka or over 200, 000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose passages.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Shrimad Bhagavad Gita (’The Song by God’), often referred to as the Gita, is a 700-verse Hindu scripture that is part of the epic Mahabharata (chapters 23–40 of Bhishma Parva), dated to the second half of the first millennium BCE and exemplary for the emerging Hindu synthesis.

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